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attempt will be made to secure another section of land for the school. The Gracie I. Berryhill, 80 acres, with 21 producing wells in the Glenn Pool, has been sold by the Oklahoma State Oil company to a company of Holland capitalists for $200,000. This is one of the largest sales of oil property made in months. State Superintendent Cameron has received notice that he has been placed upon the program of the National Educational association which convenes in Washington February 25. The subject assigned him is, "School Plans for the Youngest State." Mail clerks, members of the Oklahoma division, will meet in Oklahoma City the last of the month. No definite date has been set but L. W. Boggs, president of the association, may name the time this week. The defunct Choctaw State bank of Coalgate has liquidated its indebtedness and discontinued business. The bank's president, Mr. Christian, will continue in the land and investment business here. The Grant county Poultry and Pet Stock show was organized at Pond Creek last week. A charter was issued to the Anadarko State bank, which has a capital stock of $25,000. Prisoners in the Muskogee city Jail will be placed on a rock pile instead of allowed to serve out their time sitting in comfortable cells. A ten toot stockade will be built near the jail. The county commissioners of Washdta county have accepted the new county jail building. 1 ne building cost $20,000 and is built of red pressed brick. It has three stories and a basement. Wapanucka will have a canning factory if plans of business men and farmers mature. The stock has been subscribed and it is proposed to begin building the plant in the spring. Local men in Waukomis are planning the erection of an overall factory. The new enterprise will employ about forty people. Tryon shipped nineteen earloads of stock in one day during the past week. Robbers entered the postoffice at Dibble, twenty miles west of Chickasha, and secured a small amount of money and stamps. The sate was blown open with nitro-glycerine. Charles Griswold of Guthrie, chairman of the district clerk's association of the state, has received over 100 letters of inquiry in regard to fees since statehood. Under the territorial regime clerks received fees from six or seven counties. Since state hood they are limited to the fees from one county and the fees in United States cases are now collected by United States district clerks. The clerks say, also, that the establishment of county courts has taken away one-third of the fees in county causes by giving the new court jurisdiction in misdemeanor cases. Surveyors have arrived in Shawnee to begin work on the Fort Smith, Checotah & Shawnee interurban. The survey will go east from Shawnee.